I am completely new to wine. I remember reading somewhere that the problem(.wine is not owned by you) occurs when wine is run under sudo or root. I am not familiar with the unix part of Mac os, but I do know that sudo is a command and root is a type of user/access who has control over the entire computer like an administrator.Does that mean that I can't run wine from my administrator account on my mac? If so, how can I run wine without giving root access while I am using my admin account.
Simply don't run wine as root using sudo ;)
I am not to familiar with the terminal. So I never use sudo to run anything, I just use the gui within Mac OSX. I just right click the appilication I wish to run, and select open with wine helper. Then wine helper gives me the error wine: wine: /Users/##########/.wine is not owned by you.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Sai <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I am not to familiar with the terminal. So I never use sudo to run anything, I just use the gui within Mac OSX. I just right click the appilication I wish to run, and select open with wine helper. Then wine helper gives me the error > wine: wine: /Users/##########/.wine is not owned by you. > > > > > >$ sudo rm -rf /Users/##########/.wine $ wine notepad
Terminal says -bash: wine: command not found when I type in "wine notepad"
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 22:48 -0500, Sai wrote:> I am completely new to wine. I remember reading somewhere that the > problem(.wine is not owned by you) occurs when wine is run under sudo > or root.If you started using Wine as a normal user, continue to do so (this appears to be the case). NEVER RUN WINE AS ROOT. Please see http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014 before continuing.> I am not familiar with the unix part of Mac os, but I do know that > sudo is a command and root is a type of user/access who has control > over the entire computer like an administrator.Does that mean that I > can't run wine from my administrator account on my mac? If so, how can > I run wine without giving root access while I am using my admin > account.root=admin account; use a normal user that is not root. -- Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080611/535a5df7/attachment.pgp
Thank you guys for all the info. I now have wine up and running, but is there anyway to wine under my admin account without giviging wine full access to my computer? Cause it's annoying to have to switch accounts everytime I run wine.
Okay, Okay I get it. Never run anything as root. I was playing around with a normal user account, and it seems I can basically do everything I want as a normal user. You see I was a windows user before, and on windows if you aren't admin you can't do jack. I never thought of anything but admin when it came to setting up accounts.